Attorney General Jeff Sessions blamed the opioid crisis, in large part, on cannabis. “The DEA said that a huge percentage of the heroin addiction starts with prescriptions. That may be an exaggerated number; they had it as high as 80 percent,” Sessions said at the Heritage Foundation to the Reagan Alumni Association this week. “We think a lot of this is starting with marijuana and other drugs too.” Experts in healthcare were quick to debunk Sessions' claims. Richard A. Friedman, a professor of clinical psychiatry and the director of the psychopharmacology clinic at the Weill Cornell Medical College, wrote a retort in the New York Times titled "Cannabis Can Save Lives." – VOX

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